Hello everyone, My name is Özlem. I am Turkish and have lived in France since 2014. I finished my master's degree in European and international studies from the University of Aix-Marseille in 2020. All environmental, political and social issues in the Mediterranean interest me. This motivated me to start my volunteer mission within IVY Interreg. It has been almost two months since I started my mission in a NGO in Marseille : Le Plan Bleu. We work particularly on projects that

Hi, I’m Balawal Sultan a student at the Free University of Bolzano in Italy, and I’ve been an IVY volunteer for about a month. I, like many other people, went to school in order to acquire the knowledge necessary to do reasonably well in life, and the debt I owe to my school I can never fully repay, but, thanks to IVY and Eurac I’ve been given the opportunity to help improve school life for thousands of students, through the QAES project. Students spend much of their time at

Hello to everyone ! So, this has been an intense last month. On the 26th of July I started my IVY mission for the Community Land Trust Brussels (CLTB), a very complex and incredible association that develops permanently affordable housing projects in Brussels for people with limited means, on collectively-owned lands. The work of the Community Land Trust Brussels is not limited to the production of housing, but also extends to community work with the inhabitants, the improvem

Time flies when you’re having fun! And working on projects aimed at making tourism more sustainable is not only fundamental, but also very motivating. I have joined the Intermediterranean Commission of the Conference of Peripheral and Maritime Regions in early September, to assist the implementation of the BEST MED and SMARTMED projects. Both projects aim to enhance governance in the tourism sector, with a specific focus on data management and on capacity-building in public a

Dear all, I am Lea Ferrandi, and I am pleased to write to you today to speak about my Interreg Volunteer experience. I have been volunteering in IVY since the very beginning of September. I left my beautiful Corsican Island to live in Marseille, where I am volunteering as a Interreg project partner for the organisation Plan Bleu. Plan Bleu is among the associations designated as center for the regional activities of the Mediterranean Action Plan from the United Nations enviro